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S. B. STROBEL & W. O. GONE. HORSE POWER.

No. 559,914. Patented May 12, 1896.

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S. E. fiTROBEL & W. G. GONE. HORSE POWER.

No. 559,914. Pate t d May 12,1896.

53706 @Z WZZZZQm 6. 6 07219 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SIMON E. STROBEL AND IVILLIAM C. CONE, OF DE SMET, SOUTH DAKOTA,ASSIGNORS OF ONE-THIRD TO NANCY M. PATCHEN, OF SAME PLACE.

HO RSE-POWER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 559,914, dated May 12,1896.

Application filed November 15, 1894. Serial No. 528,892. (No model.)

To whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, SIMON E. STROBEL and WILLIAM C. CONE, citizens ofthe United States, residing at De Smet, in the county of Kingsbury andState of South Dakota, have invented a new and useful HorsePower, ofwhich the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to a horse-power for driving machinery, such asbaling-presses,

[o threshing-machines, and the like; and it has for its objects toprovide a simple, inexpensive, and efiicient apparatus adapted tomultiply the speed of the driving-shaft, the same being provided withsimple means for controlling the speed to suit the machine in connectionwith which it is used.

Further objects and advantages of the invention will appear in thefollowing description, and the novel features thereof will beparticularly pointed out in the appended claim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a machine embodyingour invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view, partly broken away, to

zg show the multiplying mechanism below the platform. Fig. 3 is alongitudinal section of the same with the platform or table occupy ing aposition at a right angle to that shown in Fig. 1 to illustrate thebrake-bars in crosssection. Fig. lis a bottom plan view of the platformor table. Fig. 5 is a detail sectional view of the brake-bar-operatingmechanism.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in all thefigures of the 5 drawings.

1 designates a portable frame mounted upon the ground-wheels 2, thefront wheels being mounted upon a pivotal axle 3, to which is attached atongue at. At the center of the frame, which is in the form of awagonbody, are arranged the upper and lower parallel cross-bars 5,provided at their centers with bearings G, in which is mounted thevvertical drive-shaft 7, provided above the 4 5 upper cross-bar with asquared or angular terminal 8. Fixed to the driveshaft between the upperand lower cross-bars is a master gear 9, which meshes with a pinion 10on the vertical counter-shaft 11, mounted in bearings in the parallelupper and lower crossbars 12. tion to said pinion, the sprocket or chainwheel 13, of large diameter, which is connected by the chain 1a with asmall chainwheel 15 on a second counter-shaft 16, arranged near the rearend of the framework and mounted in upper and lower cross-bars 17. Thissecond counter-shaft is provided at its lower end with a bevel-gear 18,meshing with a bevel-pinion 19 of the horizontal longitudinally-disposeddriven shaft 20,mounted in suitable bearings 21 near the bottom of theframework. This driven shaft is provided with squared terminal 22 forengagement with a socket of a connecting-shaft of the ordinaryconstruction. (Not shown.) Intermediate portions of the chain travelupon the antifriction-rolls 23, mounted upon the transverse spindle 24and support the weight of the intermediate portion of the chain toprevent deflection and binding upon the teeth of the chain-wheels; also,a chain-tight euing device, consisting of an idle pulley or roll 25,mounted upon an adjustable bracket 26, is employed to take up slack inthe chain and cause an effective transmission of mo tion.

Fitted upon the upper squared end of the driving-shaft is a rotaryplatform or table 27, bearing at or near its periphery upon theant-ifriction bearing-rolls 28, arranged at intervals thereunder on theframework, and provided upon its upper side with a series of keepers 29for the reception of the inner reduced ends of the sweeps 30, to whichare adapted to be attached the draft-animals. Said sweeps are held fromdeflection during operation by means of the tensile braces 31, attached,temporarily, to hooks 32, formed integral with the said keepers. Theinner ends of the braces are hooked, as shown at 33, for engagement withsaid hooks 32 and are connect-ed at their outer ends to the sweeps bymeans of interlocking eyes, as shown at 3l. The table is provided uponits upper side with an extension or hub 35, in which is arranged aremovable pin 36 for engagement with a transverse perforation 37 in thedriving-shaft.

This counter-shaft carries, in addilubricated without displacing any ofthem.

Attached to the upper side of the upper cross-bar, in which thedriving-shaft is mounted, is a station ary peripherally-gm ove dbrakewheel 39, and pivotally connected to the un-= der side of thetable, and lying upon opposite sides of said brake-wheel, are thebrake-bars.

40, fitting at their extremities in guides 41.

Mounted in a vertical bearing 42 in the platform, and provided at itsupper end with a,

hand-wheel 43, is a brake-shaft 4%, provided at its lower end, below theplane of the platform, with a drum 44, to which are connected cables orchains .45, attached to the free ends} By reeling said cables? or chainsthrough the rotation of the handwheel the free ends of the brake-barsmay be drawn toward each other to cause the bars to l of the brake-bars.

bind against opposite sides of the brakewheel, and thus regulate thespeed of rotation of the driving-shaft. A ratchet-wheel 46 is attachedto the brake-shaft, and arranged in operative relation therewith is adog 47 for holding the same at the desired adjustment.

The operation of the above mechanism will without departing from thespirit or sacrificinglany of the advantages of the invention.

Having thusdescribed the invention, we claim In a machine of the classdescribed, the combination with a portable frame, of a ver tical mainshaft mounted in bearings in upper and lower transverse bars 5,ahorizontal rotary platform or table secured to the upper end of themain shaft, a stationary brakewheel secured to the upper transverse barwith its upper surface contiguous to the lower surface of the rotaryplatform or table and concentric vwith the main shaft, a keeper ailsecured to the platform or table, brake-bars pivoted to the under sideof the platform and operating at their free ends in said keeper, meanscarried by and operatedfrom the plat- .form or table for drawing thefree ends of said brake-bars toward each other to engage the surface ofthe stationary brake-wheel, a counter-shaft connected by gearing withthe main shaft, a second counter-shaft connected by multiplying-gearwith the first-named counter-shaft, and a driven shaft geared to thesecond counter-shaft, substantially as specified.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own we have heretoaffixed our signatures in the presence oftwo witnesses.

SIMON E. STROBEL. XVILLIAM O. CONE. lVitnesses:

GEO. "W. LA'rrIN, H. R. FOLSOM.

